[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5061]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  LET'S PUT OUR FISCAL HOUSE IN ORDER

  (Mr. COLLINS of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Madam Speaker, over the past break, I had the 
chance to go home to the beautiful Georgia Ninth, where I'm born and 
raised. And one of the things that I find when I go back that is always 
refreshing is people seem to want to find answers. They find answers to 
the problems of their life. They want to know what is happening, and 
they do not understand inside-the-Beltway-thinking that simply adds 
more and more talk and more and more rhetoric.
  Over the past week I have sat in two committees in which the 
government's own inspectors have found waste, have found duplication, 
have found fragmentation, in which everything is going in a way in 
which people back home don't understand.
  Sometimes we come to this well and we say, People, we need to come 
together. Well, what we've got to understand is what we have just heard 
the last 2 weeks from people in our district is that they want to see 
action. They don't understand sequester when you've got all this money 
sitting out there that is being wasted and duplication in programs such 
as three programs to study catfish.
  As I said in the committee the other day, I've fished for catfish all 
my life. I don't understand why we need that much inspection.
  What we need now is action to cut the waste. We've proposed a 
balanced budget from the Republican perspective. We're going to 
continue to fight to put our fiscal house in order.

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